LINDBERGH BACK IN AMERICA

Southland Times, Issue 23376, 7 December 1937, Page 7

LINDBERGH BACK IN AMERICA

Secret Voyage From Southampton

NEW JERSEY ESTATE HEAVILY GUARDED

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright)

(Received December 6, 6.30 p.m.)

ENGLEWOOD (New Jersey), Dec. 5. Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Mrs Lindbergh have returned to Englewood after nearly two years of voluntary exile, presumably to spend Christmas and New Year with Mrs D. W. Morrow, Mrs Lindbergh’s mother. They are going to England in January. Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh arrived at New York aboard the liner President Harding after a voyage surrounded by secrecy. For a part of the voyage Colonel Lindbergh was disguised with dark glasses, and he assumed the name of Gregory. It is believed that he and his wife are guests tonight behind the heavily guarded walls of Mrs Morrow’s estate, although all connected with the family deny their arrival.

There was a bustle of activity around the estate throughout the day. Twelve policemen patrolled the grounds and electricians were busy stringing wires from a police booth at the entrance to the grounds to the house. It is learned that Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh boarded the liner at Southampton, just before it sailed, from, a car instead of the customary boat train. They were addressed as Mr and Mrs Gregory when they boarded the liner, although neither that name nor their own appeared on the passenger list. They revealed their identity to a steward on his first visit to their cabin, where they dined the first two days; they were afterwards seated at the captain’s table, where their companions included the Dean of Exeter Cathedral (Dr S. C. Carpenter). Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh gave autographs on condition that the recipients did not divulge their identity.

Colonel Lindbergh gave up residence in the United States on December 22. 1935, and sailed from New York to make his home in England. With him were his wife and son Jon, then three years old. Threats of kidnapping and even of death to the child, recurring repeatedly since his birth, caused the father and mother to make the decision; these threats have increased in both number and virulence recently.

Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh were the only passengers in the American Importer, the ship in which they arrived at Liverpool on December 30. They went to the estate of Mrs Lindbergh’s sister, in South Wales.